Watched a video about the Oblivion Remaster that was also definitely about Anti-semitic conspiracies
Not linking (reasons obvious) but it's the first time in a while that I've not immediately recognised the more reactionary impulses of a creator like this. It snuck up on me.
I've been expanding my YouTube horizons a bit, checking out people who've clearly gotten popular while I wasn't looking and seeing if I like what they have to say. Not in a place to start promoting them or anything, but it does seem like there's a relatively solid current of new people rising to the surface, and it's particularly nice to see some folks talking about old topics (we're talking Mass Effect, Last of us) with a view I haven't seen a million times already.
Anyway in this spirit I watched a video outlining the artistic issues with the Oblivion remaster, and after nodding along for the first 10-15 minutes about how desaturated and characterless it all is, how generic the enemies look mmhmm very good, there was a little diversion about how using "body type 1/2" or whatever is actually more bioessentialist than "Male/Female" and also a binary ackshually, without any real elaboration. Hmm.
He talks about the removal of gendered outfits and how clunkily executed it all is, and I'm broadly back agreeing. He's clear - some of the originals were tasteless and a redesign would have been a good idea, but the removal and subsequent implementation of just "the dude gear on a different body" doesn't work - hell, they don't work well on the "body type 2" they're designed for. Cool! That's a good little point.
There was a genuinely interminable diversion into societal control through media, including quoting foundational texts on propoganda and referring to people who think it doesn't matter as "golems" and like...
Look, I can give benefit of the doubt to an extent. I'm summarising what he says here and in doing so it makes it probably look worse than it is, but even if the writer doesn't intend to do antisemitism, the comments know because there's more than a handful of people doing antisemitism down there, with big SOLIDARITY messages.
Anyway I wasn't kidding about that diversion being interminable, he juxtaposes a bunch of clips of black employment activists explaining how they pressure companies to improve diversity practices against billionaires saying they force DEI on the companies they invest in because it's the financially savvy thing to do. This is so colossally disingenuous that I don't feel any need to give him the benefit of the doubt here. This dude's fucked. Please don't recommend anything else by him, YouTube, thanks.
Why can't someone normal write about this bloody game lmao
It's just wild to me how even someone with a feed as curated and carefully managed as mine can have this kind of rhetoric actively recommended after a previous version of the same video was apparently taken down for unspecified reasons ofc).
I'm just trying to learn what the zoomers have to say about jade empire guys I don't want rants about the deep state please tune your algorithm accordingly.